Pińczów limestone – a recognized and sought-after Polish material for any type of facade

03 of December '21

Pińczów limestone

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From the series "Facade and wall materials—trends 2023"

This stone has been known since the 11th century and has the longest history of uninterrupted use and use in the architecture of Poland and neighboring countries. It has gained recognition due to its combination of unique parameters and colors.

Pińczów limestone on facades

Its warm beige-white color has had its adherents for centuries in both palace and castle and sacred applications. Nowadays, it is used as a facade material for both exteriors and interiors. It has unique characteristics that make it a lightweight material that is easy to work with and apply. Thanks to its porosity, it has very interesting insulating parameters (at a lower cost you can achieve passivity or energy efficiency of the building) and is 30% lighter than other stone materials.

Pińczów limestone—facades and cladding supports

And thanks to the ability to patination (hardening of the surface), decorative elements made of this stone please the eyes even after several hundred years, without changing their appearance. Using modern production technologies, an infinite number of finishing textures can be given (including grinding, brushing, fluting, incising, combing, sandblasting, flaking, etc.).

Pińczów limestone—walls and fences

The material can be a building block as well as a facing, a sculptural material as well as a component of vaults, a wall of an old barn building as well as a palace, a facing on the facade of a luxury apartment building as well as a component of a fence.

Pińczów limestone—decorative facades

In recent years, this material was used in the construction of:

Arłamów Hotel (exterior and interior elevations)
Solec Apartments in Warsaw (exterior elevations and loggia cladding)
Administrative Center of the Wielka Wieś Commune (exterior elevations)
Parliament of the Republic of Poland (exterior elevations)
On restoration work on the Wawel Castle and the Cloth Hall in Cracow
As well as at dozens of public buildings and hundreds of private investments.

Pińczów limestone—elevations

We mine this material from our own mine and have a modern production plant. For 30 years we have been supplying stone for projects throughout Europe. We take an individual and flexible approach to each investment.